Joe Conason: Bush Had Friends, But Martha Had None

[The_Bearded_Liberal]

As a Clinton friend who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party, Ms. Stewart has few friends in power these days. As the son of the President, Mr. Bush faced regulators who were loyal not only to his father, but to him.

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http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp

[booksenkatz]

1. Thanks for that -- it's been my main irk all along

Regardless of how one feels about Martha Stewart or G.W. Bush: if Martha serves time in prison, then G.W. should most certainly serve time in prison. Either we punish all of them or none of them.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Disagree with the conclusion we should punish none of them.

As sad as it is, the fact is, our economic system is being corrupted by people who should know better. To do nothing is to say that we should not punish white collar crime, which is generally perpetuated by whites. Yet we continue to go with the full force of the law against blue collar crime, which is generally focused on street crimes, and in particular, minorities.

The Dems will be able to even the score when they get in power and go after a Republican version of Martha Stewart. But to do nothing, is completely wrong.

[booksenkatz]

5. I agree

I say we throw all of their asses in jail. Martha should not serve as much time as G.W., because his crime was far greater. All those rich bastard CEO criminals should serve time, if it were up to me. But the idea of G.W. walking freely in decent society, never having had to face the music for a single one of his crimes (not just the financial crimes), sickens me to my marrow. And if he is free, then Martha should be free. That was my point.

[pippin]

3. Cheney has friends, Ken Lay

has friends, Mike Milliken had friends, Scalia is a friend etc., etc., ad nauseum. :puke:

[dennis4868]

4. it amazing....

that we spent $50 million dollars to investigate a land deal that went bad that was over 30 years old and was chump change compred to the Harkin deal and yet there is no mention at all by the media (other than this article) regarding Bush's actions with Harkin. If this was Clinton we would be in the middle of a constitutional crisis right now with impeachment hearings!

I just wish the media would for once wake up and let the people know who George Bush really is....wishfull thinking!